Analytics for Understanding Parliamentary Enquiries
Categorising enquiries submitted to the UK House of Commons Library
As part of a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship, enquiries data stored in the Enquiries Database of the House of Commons Library were analysed, in the way of identifying patterns (e.g., as to what triggers certain types of enquiries, and when) and supporting Library staff in responding to incoming enquiries. As the enquiries stored in the Enquiries Database were not labelled according to any subject/topic taxonomy, it was not possible to categorise and search through them by topic. To help address this problem, topic models were developed in order to automatically categorise each enquiry according to the Current Awareness Taxonomy which contains 20 topics.
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